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On December 4, 2022, as a result of the vigilance of staff members, contraband and unauthorized items were seized at Cowansville Institution, a medium security federal institution.
The contraband and unauthorized items seized included 411 grams of hashish, 800 grams of tobacco, three cell phones and accessories and a screwdriver. The total estimated institutional value of this seizure is $59,870.
The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) uses a number of tools to prevent drugs from entering its institutions. These tools include ion scanners and drug-detector dogs to search buildings, personal property, inmates, and visitors.
CSC is heightening measures to prevent contraband from entering its institutions in order to help ensure a safe and secure environment for everyone. CSC also works in partnership with the police to take action against those who attempt to introduce contraband into correctional institutions.
CSC has also set up a telephone tip line for all federal institutions so that it may receive additional information about activities relating to security at CSC institutions. These activities may be related to drug use or trafficking that may threaten the safety and security of visitors, inmates, and staff members working at CSC institutions.
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Brandenburg as a zmall zity? Zis vas not a zmall citi. No, no, no. Zis vas a great citi since ze beginning of time! Ze greatest that vaz. Ze French once zed it vasn't. We show'd zem! Hah. Und nov to the important matters at hand.
The Map of Brandenburg[edit | edit source]
There is no map. The city is so vast and great that not only it will overcome any weary traveller, frenchman or otherwise, but it will terrorise everything in sight. Once it will overcome Europe (Russia included) and turn it into the greatest beer-drinking, cheese-consuming, coffee-shunning Empire that ever was, is and will be since the beginning of time, no matter what Oscar Wilde says, all shall be awed by its might. The official map of Brandenburg is the one (1) dollar bill. The actual map can be found in the symbol of the Freemasons from the center of the eye. Yes, Brandenburg owns them.
You Take The High Road And I'll Take Silesia, You Dumb Who*e[edit | edit source]
As fate would have it, around the time of the first and last great grue crusades (1452-1901+2 A.D.), young Friedrich (87 years young) got into an argument with Austria's Overlord, Mary Theresa, over the television rights to the Gay Parades in Saxony. Since they were both civilised adults, they decided to settle the matter over a hot cup of war (declared officially by Mary Theresa in her sleep, on the night before it began).Upon hearing of the mobilisation of Austrian troops, Friedrich immediately captured Saxony, in the overrated Seven Minute War, faltering the plans of the Austrian Overlord and her somnambulant advisors. A peace treaty was drawn up hours after the conflict had expired, which not only gave full Saxonian rights (television and otherwise) to Friedrich's Brandenburg/Prussia, but also proclaimed Mary Theresa Worse Dressed and Sexually Inclined Overlord of The Year...oh, and the germans also got Silesia...At the signing, Friedrich the Great was quoted saying "SYKE!", and engaging in sexually explicit victory dances.
Blunder strikes![edit | edit source]
For a period of several decades, Prussia would attempt to control and manipulate the German states to the North and South-East of Finland, Latvia and Wall Street, via evil rabbi-eating umpires (not to be confonded with the actual umpires) let lose into town squares, churches, water supplies and porn shops. This scheme ultimately failed, and it has been marked down in history as the last of the pre-Realpolitik attempts at the unification of the Holy-Mother-Of-God-And-All-That-Is-Holy-Roman Empire
Legacy of Krupp: Defiance[edit | edit source]
In the mid 19th century, the catalyst mainly responsible for turning Brandenburg into the state that will kick your lousy ass should you have common borders with it was the Krupp cannon, the brainchild of The Brothers Murky, distant relatives of the fabled Brothers Grimm. Brandenburg's army, now equipped with fire power matched only by the wrath of God, attempted to conquer AND destroy everything that dared speak German without being German. In a series of rampant invasions, Brandenburg annexed Spain (1854), Belgium (1854), Malta (1854), New Orleans (half of 1854) and The Aztec Empire (1855), forcing their newly acquired provinces to hate the French and bury everybody! This glorious period in the history of Brandenburg has been named Steve Ballmer. Later on, one of the greatest weapons of terror to spawn forth from the secret CIA labs of Microsoft would bare the same name.
Brandenburg Industry[edit | edit source]
The main area of commerce is taken here in Brandenburg by the Grue Raising Factories that play a fundamental part in the economy of the state. Other sources of income are hunting rabbits with the Panzers and invading the Polish. Here can be found the main Krupp Factories. Anyone who knew they could be found in Heidelberg, was a traitor and he is to be shot on sight. Mercedes is just a cover-up for the mass building of tanks, nuclear arsenal, Ucrainaian Irradiated Maggots and beer.
Prussia - The Real Deal[edit | edit source]
Of course everything that was said about Prussia is a lie. Nothing is trustworthy, but what lies written here. By rights of ancestry, common origins and Panzers, anyone who dares defy our Holy State will experience a brusque and irrevocable lack of life. Look what happened to Austria. Hah!


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I'd been seeing a lot of gushy notices about Zachary Schneirov's note-taking app, Notational Velocity, and I think I now see why. This is really pretty neat. All Notational Velocity does is record little notes, but it does that in a way that is completely elegant, intuitive, and incrementally searchable. It does this by an uncanny dual use of a single text field for both searching and creation of your notes. If you're just typing in the field, it acts as a full-text, incremental, live search on all of your notes and their contents. If you hit Definitely not for everyone, but if you just need a simple app for capturing bits of information, this may be the answer to your prayers. I'm thinking if you combine this with i-search (to incrementally sub-search within your actual text field) you may have something approaching a killer app. Hint: As the author notes, you really get the most bang from keeping your notes very short and atomic. That way when you do incremental searches, you won't have to dig through 1,000 lines to find all the references in one note. POSTED IN:
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Police confirm cybercrime budget cut
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The Metropolitan Police have confirmed their budget for battling cybercrime nationally has been slashed by the Home Office.
The Register revealed on Friday that central government funding for the Police Central eCrime Unit (PCeU) had been quietly cut by 30 per cent.
A spokeswoman for the Met said the PCeU had been targeted as part of the coalition government's initial £6bn batch of cuts, announced on 24 May.
"It has been confirmed that the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) will not receive the planned £1m uplift in funding from the Home Office next year," she said.
According to original spending plans, the PCeU was due to receive £3.5m from the Home Office next year.
"Funding will remain at the same level as for 2009/10," said the Met.
Along with other senior officers, Janet Williams, the Met deputy assistant commissioner in charge of PCeU and national cybercrime policing policy through ACPO, argued that the unit was underfunded when it was set up and called for expansion. The deep cut less than two years into its operations means it will not reach even its originally planned capability.
"The planned uplift in funding was to improve our ACPO national mainstream law enforcement capability, as well as providing essential training and crucial IT infrastructure within the PCeU," said the Met's spokeswoman.
"Without this additional funding the growth of our capability will be restricted, however we remain committed to our existing work in this area at current funding levels."
The Met will also divert some of its own funds to the unit to make up some - but nowhere near all - of the shortfall.
Cuts are expected across policing following the Budget next week, but the fact that the fight against the multibillion-pound cybercrime industry was sacrificed to the very first swing of the axe will be interpreted to mean that despite successes - and pre-election rhetoric - the issue is still viewed as a low priority in Whitehall. ®


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I am really back this time :-)
'Cept I must go and survey the damage the hubby, kids and cats have done downstairs while I have been horizontal for a few weeks. LOL
I know I'm getting a new dishwasher because I heard the ranting and raving when hubby couldn't get the door open and he freaked cos he, well, might have to *eek* wash dishes BY HAND! ROFL
The door is a little fussy about how it opens ever since a small child used it to stand on while helping me do dishes.
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Don Imus and his brother Fred both claim to have had parents, a mother and a father. I have never seen them. Have you? Parental absence coupled to the Imus brothers' pathological behavior fetishes, have led to a thesis that both spawned spontaneously in dust clots accumulated behind the laundromat dryers where Don would spend many of his formative years.
As nearly as the date can be fixed, Don's birth - however it occurred - took place in the late 18-hundreds making him a contemporary of such noted Americans as Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland... all U.S. Presidents.
Don spent the normal twelve years in public school and emerged with no formal education ... a product of automatic social promotion. His secondary school experience was limited to carrying a cracked, faded rubber in his wallet and binding a female classmate to a tree with electrician's tape. He graduated with no honors and no skills. Requiring neither, a broadcasting career seemed a natural for the young Imus and advancements came quickly.
Now widely acclaimed, Imus has been featured on NBC's "Today" show, the ABC programs "Prime Time Live" and "20/20", and on CBS' "48 Hours" and "60 Minutes." He has been a guest of Charlie Rose, David Letterman, and of particular note, Larry King, in shameless, mutual ass-kissing marathons. In addition, Don has been, and continues to be, a subject of countless, pointless print articles. Time magazine once named Don one of the 25 most influential people in America. More recently, Don appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine in a feature article titled, "The Importance of Being Imus." Don's loyal radio staff hopes they will soon see him similarly featured on milk cartons.
In a now celebrated episode dating back to the spring of 1996, Don shared a stage with President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at Washington's annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association's dinner. While at the podium, Don made some observations about Mr. Clinton that some felt were rude and upsetting to the President, and that tended to leave egg on Don's face. Little did we know then, that Mr. Clinton was already well into the business of leaving substances splattered on individuals with whom he might come into contact; that his discomfort that evening had its roots in his own wayward DNA, and that Don was Nostradamus. But that's another story best left to another biography.
Imus is also a best-selling author and an accomplished amateur photographer. His novel, "God's Other Son," spent three months on the New York Times best-seller list driven there by listeners to his program who bought the book to get him to shut up about it. His most recent book, "Two Guys, Four Corners," a collection of photographs of desert rocks accompanied by wrenchingly inane captions, rose to number 13 on the New York Times best set-seller list ... driven by the same people who bought "God's Other Son," and for the same reasons.
In September of 1996, the Imus radio program began being simulcast live on cable network MSNBC for reasons never made clear. The Imus program, broadcast and televised, features recurrring, prominent guests ranging from Katherine Graham of the Washington Post to bluesman B.B. King. It also features guests few have heard of and fewer still could give a rat's ass about; Tim Russert of NBC's Meet The Press, CNN's Jeff Greenfield, Time magazine's Margaret Carlson, all come to mind as examples.
Since 1990, Imus has headlined a radiothon with New York radio station WFAN that has raised over 50-million dollars to benefit the Tomorrows Children Fund, the CJ Foundation for SIDS, and the Imus Ranch for kids with cancer. The money, donated for exactly the same reasons and by the same people who bought the stupid books, funded the completion and the David Jurist Cancer Research facility, both located at New Jersey's Hackensack university Medical Center.
Imus has received too many plaques, trophies and pieces of walnut with crystal stuff stuck on them to mention. We won't. He is a member of the Emerson Radio Hall of Fame, the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, the Stolichnaya and Marlboro Halls of Fame, and, if there is a God, will soon be a permanent exhibit at the Duke University School of Medicine's Hall of Cadavers where his lungs will be featured in a display designed to permanently traumatize children.


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These are among the construction activities scheduled Dec. 8-14 at the University of Wyoming.
Snow Removal -- Physical Plant crews will remove snow as needed throughout the season. Watch for snow removal equipment, be careful and safe during snow events, and call the Service Desk, 766-6225, to report ice spots and problem areas.
The UW Facilities Planning Office reports the following activities for the week:
Education Annex Canopy (Scheduled completion December 2013) -- Construction activities continue on the project between the east entrance of the Education Annex and the north entrance of the Education Building, as well as interior renovation of the corridor in the vicinity of the Dean's Office in the Education Building. Current construction activities include installation of canopy aluminum and glass ceiling/roof panels. Normal access to the Education Building and Annex is open, with temporary protections in place. Vehicular access and parking -- north and east of the Education Building and the Ed Annex -- have reopened to normal traffic, except that Lab School pick-up and drop-off activities are prohibited in this lot. Ongoing construction activities require temporary provisions to be put into place with limited notice to accommodate continuing construction. Pedestrians and motorists should exercise caution in the area.
Golf Practice Facility (Scheduled completion December 2013) -- Construction activities for the project continue in the vicinity of the Jacoby Golf Course clubhouse. Exterior and interior framing, interior rough-in, and building enclosure, are underway. Utility work in support of the project is complete; however, work being conducted by Ivinson Memorial Hospital along Willett Drive will require temporary and changeable traffic detours of the Jacoby parking lot and adjacent portions of Willett Drive as work progresses. Please observe all posted traffic control and construction signage.
Half Acre Gymnasium Addition and Renovation (Scheduled completion spring 2015) -- Full project information is available at www.uwyo.edu/ha-renovation. Construction progress can be observed via the project webcam at http://oxblue.com/open/groathouse/gymrenovation. Half Acre Gymnasium remains open and accessible via the west entrance. The day lot parking area and roadway immediately east of Half Acre Gymnasium are closed. Temporary day-use parking has been established in the lot east of the Wyoming Union.
Construction work for Phase I, consisting of the reconstruction of the east portion of the existing building, continues this week. Construction and staging areas north, south and east of the existing building have been established and are closed to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic, except that which is construction related. Access to Prexy's Pasture from the east Wyoming Union parking lot between Half Acre and the Wyoming Union is closed until further notice. Please use alternate routes through the Wyoming Union or between the Union and Coe Library. Temporary staging/construction areas also may be established, with limited notice, near the west entrance and along the pedestrian pathways north of Half Acre Gymnasium between Prexy's Pasture and Willett Drive as required by the ongoing construction-related tasks.
Subgrade earthwork and foundation construction is nearing completion for the east addition. Structural shear wall construction has begun, followed by structural steel erection in late December through January. Heavy truck traffic, including concrete trucks, earth-moving equipment and other haulers, will be frequent on Willett Drive west of 15th Street and along the perimeter of the Wyoming Union parking lot. Temporary traffic controls and signs are either in place or will be established as needed by specific site activities. Please observe all posted traffic control, construction signs and temporary flagging.
University of Wyoming/Casper College Student Union (UW/CC Student Union, scheduled occupancy is winter break) -- Primary building construction is complete, including throughout UW/CC third- and fourth-floor spaces. Technology and furniture, furnishings and equipment (FF&E) packages will be installed in coming weeks
Education Annex -- Literacy Research Center and Clinic (lower floor, Education Annex; scheduled completion January 2014) -- The lower (first) floor of the Education Annex is closed for construction. Access to the alleyway and portions of related parking east and south of the Agriculture Building is closed, and a temporary access/egress detour has been established west of the Agriculture Building. The pedestrian sidewalk in the Education Annex vicinity is closed on the south side of Lewis Street, with pedestrian access rerouted to the north side of the street at the established construction limits. Parking in the vicinity is closed on the south side of Lewis Street at the construction limits. Project activities include interior finish construction, exterior curtain wall and storefront system erection, site work related to the exterior building addition, and improvements in the former alleyway. Work on the improvements in the former alleyway will result in increased construction traffic in the form of concrete trucks and other heavy equipment. The construction area is closed to all unauthorized parties. Please observe all posted traffic control and construction signage.
Biological Sciences Building Mechanical Modifications (Completion is set for this month; fifth floor for January) -- Building users are encouraged to use the northwest entrance to avoid construction activities. Interior work is complete. Control wiring and programing is continuing. Testing and balancing of the air systems are continuing, and will continue through mid-December. Fifth floor duct, heating water lines and electrical are continuing.
ESCo Project (Energy Services Company) -- Long Energy Services Co. employees will continue working AHU control wiring at AG. Work on the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory boiler replacement is complete. Installation of boilers and unit heaters at the Isolation building is complete with building automation tie-ins ongoing.
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts (Fine Arts Building, renovation and expansion, scheduled completion December 2014) -- Additional project information is available here. The parking lot on the east side of the UW Performing Arts Center is closed, is being used for construction staging and will be converted into a green area following construction. Building visitors should use the parking lot on the north side of the building. The large crane has arrived and is in the southeast part of the north parking lot through mid-December. Steel erection has begun. Those entering the Performing Arts Center must now enter through the doors on the west side of the building. This will be the entrance for all building operations, including classes, ticket purchases and performances, until construction is complete. The east side of the building is a secured construction zone with restricted access. Footing excavation, rebar placement and pouring continue, along with foundation walls. Grade beam exaction and forming is continuing. Backfill on the north is complete and continuing on the east side. Heavy truck traffic will be frequent near War Memorial Fieldhouse, 22nd Street and Willett Drive, and along the road west of the College of Law Building.
Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center (22nd and Grand, scheduled completion fall 2014) – Stone masonry is complete on the south side of the building. Brick masonry has begun on the west side of the building that will extend the full height of the building at the curved wall. Window frame/mullions of the smaller windows are being installed on the east and south sides of the building. Wall framing and exterior sheathing continue to be installed on the west side of the south portion of the building. The roof over the south portion of the building is completely installed and work is beginning on the entry element on the south side of the building. The loading dock and related service drive work is in progress on the north side of the building. MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) in-wall rough-in work is being installed on the second floor of the south portion of the building. The drywall for the ceilings and soffits are being installed in the ballroom. Additional project information is available here. Click here for updated images taken by the construction cam.
Enzi STEM Facility (Lewis Street between 10th and 11th streets, scheduled completion June 2015) -- Lewis Street remains closed between 10th and 11th streets. Please note that this project is being managed and administered by the State Construction Office. The preliminary site work has been completed. Subcontractor bids are under review by the construction manager, architect and State Construction Office for the building and site development. Contractor mobilization is expected in early December, and site work, utilities and foundations will start shortly after mobilization. Utilities for STEM will be done in conjunction with planned north campus utility work.
Agriculture Buildings A, B and D (on Lewis between 12th and 13th streets) -- Deconstruction is complete. Four HC parking spaces will be open in the alley along with one "U" and two state/federal spaces. The fire department access loop will remain until site work along the west of the Education Building is complete. Access to the alley along the north side of the Agriculture Building will remain open. This site will be used for construction storage for the STEM project beginning in December. Portions of the site will be used for construction staging for other projects and construction parking. The site will not be open for general parking.
The UW Physical Plant has 279 projects in progress valued at more than $20 million. Following is a list of ongoing construction activities in areas of campus that may impact you. Please call the Service Desk at (307) 766-6225 with questions.
Alarm Testing -- Annual fire alarm testing throughout campus will continue through Jan. 10. Alarms will sound intermittently as crews check systems. Building contacts have been notified and provided with schedules before testing.
Knight Hall -- Electrical work to bring generator power to KUWR will be ongoing in the basement.
Aven Nelson Building -- The light posts south of the Williams Conservatory have been removed for restoration. Repair work is expected to take approximately two months.
Visual Arts Kiln and Sculpture Canopies -- Roof membrane installation will be ongoing, weather permitting. Expect construction equipment and material to congest the east drive. Use caution in work areas.
Centennial Complex (American Heritage Center and Art Museum) -- Roof replacement operations continue, weather permitting. Removal of the scaffolding on the cone portion of the building is ongoing. Steep slope roof envelope assembly, skylights and metal panel installation is complete. Main entry and elevator access remains open. The main project staging area is on the north side of the building. Use caution in work areas.
Centennial Complex -- Painting is ongoing in public areas. Work is scheduled to be complete Dec 16. Use caution near painting crews and equipment.
Washakie Basement -- Painting operations will be ongoing this week and will continue for several weeks. Please use caution near painting crews and equipment.
General Storage Addition (Scheduled exterior completion December 2013) -- The south side of the existing building is accessible from the west driveway. Shipping and Receiving operations will continue throughout construction. Please limit traffic on Gibbon Street between 15th and 19th streets to building users only. Always use caution around the construction site and construction vehicles, and observe all posted speed limits.
College of Law Building -- Lighting replacements and upgrades of existing fixtures in the basement are complete.


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ABC Vs. State (NCT of Delhi)
[Civil Appeal No........... of 2015 arising out of SLP (Civil) No. 28367 of 2011]
1. A legal nodus of seminal significance and of prosaic procedural origination presents itself before us. The conundrum is whether it is imperative for an unwed mother to specifically notify the putative father of the child whom she has given birth to of her petition for appointment as the guardian of her child. The common perception would be that three competing legal interests would arise, namely, of the mother and the father and the child. We think that it is only the last one which is conclusive, since the parents in actuality have only legal obligations.
A child, as has been ubiquitously articulated in different legal forums, is not a chattel or a ball to be shuttled or shunted from one parent to the other. The Court exercises paren patrae jurisdiction in custody or guardianship wrangles; it steps in to secure the welfare of the hapless child of two adults whose personal differences and animosity has taken precedence over the future of their child.
2. Leave granted. This Appeal is directed against the Judgment dated 8.8.2011 delivered by the High Court of Delhi, which has dismissed the First Appeal of the Appellant, who is an unwed mother, holding that her guardianship application cannot be entertained unless she discloses the name and address of the father of her child, thereby enabling the Court to issue process to him. As per the Appellant's request, her identity and personal details as well as those of her son have not been revealed herein.
3. The Appellant, who adheres to the Christian faith, is well educated, gainfully employed and financially secure. She gave birth to her son in 2010, and has subsequently raised him without any assistance from or involvement of his putative father. Desirous of making her son her nominee in all her savings and other insurance policies, she took steps in this direction, but was informed that she must either declare the name of the father or get a guardianship/adoption certificate from the Court.
She thereupon filed an application under Section 7 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 (the Act) before the Guardian Court for declaring her the sole guardian of her son. Section 11 of the Act requires a notice to be sent to the parents of the child before a guardian is appointed. The Appellant has published a notice of the petition in a daily newspaper, namely Vir Arjun, Delhi Edition but is strongly averse to naming the father. She has filed an affidavit stating that if at any time in the future the father of her son raises any objections regarding his guardianship, the same may be revoked or altered as the situation may require.
However, the Guardian Court directed her to reveal the name and whereabouts of the father and consequent to her refusal to do so, dismissed her guardianship application on 19.4.2011. The Appellant's appeal before the High Court was dismissed in limine, on the reasoning that her allegation that she is a single mother could only be decided after notice is issued to the father; that a natural father could have an interest in the welfare and custody of his child even if there is no marriage; and that no case can be decided in the absence of a necessary party.
4. Ms. Indu Malhotra, learned Senior Counsel for the Appellant, has vehemently argued before us that the Appellant does not want the future of her child to be marred by any controversy regarding his paternity, which would indubitably result should the father refuse to acknowledge the child as his own. This is a brooding reality as the father is already married and any publicity as to a declaration of his fathering a child out of wedlock would have pernicious repercussions to his present family.
There would be severe social complications for her and her child. As per Section 7 of the Act, the interest of the minor is the only relevant factor for appointing of a guardian, and the rights of the mother and father are subservient thereto. In this scenario, the interest of the child would be best served by immediately appointing the Appellant as the guardian. Furthermore, it is also pressed to the fore that her own fundamental right to privacy will be violated if she is compelled to disclose the name and particulars of the father of her child. Ms. Malhotra has painstakingly argued this Appeal, fully cognizant that the question that arises is of far reaching dimensions. It is this very feature that convinced us of the expediency of appointing amicus curiae, and Mr. Sidharth Luthra has discharged these onerous duties zealously, for which we must immediately record our indebtedness.
5. It would be pertinent to succinctly consider the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890. The Act, which applies to Christians in India, lays down the procedure by which guardians are to be appointed by the Jurisdictional Court. Sections 7, 11 and 19 deserve extraction, for facility of reference.
"7. Power of the court to make order as to guardianship (1) Where the court is satisfied that it is for the welfare of a minor that an order should be made-
(a) appointing a guardian of his person or property, or both, or
(b) declaring a person to be such a guardian, the court may make an order accordingly.
(2) An order under this section shall imply the removal of any guardian who has not been appointed by will or other instrument or appointed or declared by the court.
(3) Where a guardian has been appointed by will or other instrument or appointed or declared by the court, an order under this section appointing or declaring another person to be guardian in his stead shall not be made until the powers of the guardian appointed or declared as aforesaid have ceased under the provisions of this Act."
The details of the form of application are contained in Section 10 and the procedure that applies to a guardianship application is prescribed in Section 11. 11. Procedure on admission of application (1) If the Court is satisfied that there is ground for proceeding on the application, it shall fix a day for the hearing thereof, and cause notice of the application and of the date fixed for the hearing-
(a) to be served in the manner directed in the Code of Civil Procedure,1882(14 of 1882)11 on-
(i) the parents of the minor if they are residing in any State to which this Act extends;
(ii) the person, if any, named in the petition or letter as having the custody or possession of the person or property of the minor;
(iii) the person proposed in the application or letter to be appointed or declared guardian, unless that person is himself the applicant; and
(iv) any other person to whom, in the opinion of the court special notice of the applicant should be given; and
(b) to be posted on some conspicuous part of the court-house and of the residence of the minor, and otherwise published in such manner as the court, subject to any rules made by the High Court under this Act, thinks fit.
(2) The State Government may, by general or special order, require that when any part of the property described in a petition under section 10, sub- section (1), is land of which a Court of Wards could assume the superintendence, the court shall also cause a notice as aforesaid to be served on the Collector in whose district the minor ordinarily resides and on every Collector in whose district any portion of the land is situate, and the Collector may cause the notice to be published in any manner he deems fit.
(3) No charge shall be made by the court or the Collector for the service or publication of any notice served or published under sub-section (2). Section 19 is of significance, even though the infant son does not independently own or possess any property, in that it specifically alludes to the father of a minor.
It reads thus:
19. Guardian not to be appointed by the court in certain cases Nothing in this Chapter shall authorise the court to appoint or declare a guardian of the property of a minor whose property is under the superintendence of a Court of Wards or to appoint or declare a guardian of the person-
(a) of a minor who is a married female and whose husband is not, in the opinion of court, unfit to be guardian of her person; or
(b) of a minor whose father is living and is not in the opinion of the court, unfit to be guardian of the person of the minor; or (c) of a minor whose property is under the superintendence of a Court of Wards competent to appoint a guardian of the person of the minor. We must immediately underscore the difference in nomenclature, i.e. 'parents' in Section 11 and 'father' in Section 19, which we think will be perilous to ignore.
6. It is contended on behalf of the State that Section 11 requires a notice to be given to the 'parents' of a minor before a guardian is appointed; and that as postulated by Section 19, a guardian cannot be appointed if the father of the minor is alive and is not, in the opinion of the court, unfit to be the guardian of the child. The impugned judgment is, therefore, in accordance with the Act and should be upheld. It seems to us that this interpretation does not impart comprehensive significance to Section 7, which is the quintessence of the Act. However, before discussing the intendment and interpretation of the Act, it would be helpful to appreciate the manner in which the same issue has been dealt with in other statutes and spanning different legal systems across the globe.
7. Section 6(b) of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 makes specific provisions with respect to natural guardians of illegitimate children, and in this regard gives primacy to the mother over the father. Mohammedan law accords the custody of illegitimate children to the mother and her relations. The law follows the principle that the maternity of a child is established in the woman who gives birth to it, irrespective of the lawfulness of her connection with the begetter. However, paternity is inherently nebulous especially where the child is not an offspring of marriage.
Furthermore, as per Section 8 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925, which applies to Christians in India, the domicile of origin of an illegitimate child is in the country in which at the time of his birth his mother is domiciled. This indicates that priority, preference and pre- eminence is given to the mother over the father of the concerned child.
8. In the United Kingdom, the Children Act 1989 allocates parental responsibility, which includes all rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority of a parent over the child and his/her property. According to Section 2(2) of that Act, parental custody of a child born of unwed parents is with the mother in all cases, and additionally with the father provided he has acquired responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
To acquire responsibility, he would have to register as the child's father, execute a parental responsibility agreement with the mother or obtain a Court order giving him parental responsibility over the child. In the U.S.A., each State has different child custody laws but predominantly the mother has full legal and physical custody from the time the child is born. Unless an unmarried father establishes his paternity over the child it is generally difficult for him to defeat or overwhelm the preferential claims of the mother to the custody.
However, some States assume that both parents who sign the child's Birth Certificate have joint custody, regardless of whether they are married. In Ireland, Section 6(4) of the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1964 ordains -
"The mother of an illegitimate infant shall be guardian of the infant." Unless the mother agrees to sign a statutory declaration, an unmarried father must apply to the Court in order to become a legal guardian of his child. Article 176 of the Family Code of the Philippines explicitly provides that "illegitimate children shall use the surname and shall be under the parental authority of their mother, and shall be entitled to support in conformity with this Code."
This position obtains regardless of whether the father admits paternity. In 2004, the Supreme Court of the Philippines in Joey D. Briones vs. Maricel P. Miguel et al, G.R. No. 156343, held that an illegitimate child is under the sole parental authority of the mother. The law in New Zealand, as laid out in Section 17 of the Care of Children Act, 2004, is that the mother of a child is the sole guardian if she is not married to, or in civil union with, or living as a de facto partner with the father of the child at any time during the period beginning with the conception of the child and ending with the birth of the child. In South Africa, according to the Children's Act No. 38 of 2005, parental responsibility includes the responsibility and the right
(a) to care for the child;
(b) to maintain contact with the child;
(c) to act as guardian of the child; and
(d) to contribute to the maintenance of the child.
The biological mother of a child, whether married or unmarried, has full parental responsibilities and rights in respect of the child. The father has full parental responsibility if he is married to the mother, or if he was married to her at the time of the child's conception, or at the time of the child's birth or any time in between, or if at the time of the child's birth he was living with the mother in a permanent life-partnership, or if he
(i) consents to be identified or successfully applies in terms of Section 26 to be identified as the child's father or pays damages in terms of customary law;
(ii) contributes or has attempted in good faith to contribute to the child's upbringing for a reasonable period; and
(iii) contributes or has attempted in good faith to contribute towards expenses in connection with the maintenance of the child for a reasonable period.
This conspectus indicates that the preponderant position that it is the unwed mother who possesses primary custodial and guardianship rights with regard to her children and that the father is not conferred with an equal position merely by virtue of his having fathered the child. This analysis should assist us in a meaningful, dynamic and enduring interpretation of the law as it exists in India.
9. It is thus abundantly clear that the predominant legal thought in different civil and common law jurisdictions spanning the globe as well as in different statutes within India is to bestow guardianship and related rights to the mother of a child born outside of wedlock. Avowedly, the mother is best suited to care for her offspring, so aptly and comprehensively conveyed in Hindi by the word 'mamta'.
Furthermore, recognizing her maternity would obviate the necessity of determining paternity. In situations such this, where the father has not exhibited any concern for his offspring, giving him legal recognition would be an exercise in futility. In today's society, where women are increasingly choosing to raise their children alone, we see no purpose in imposing an unwilling and unconcerned father on an otherwise viable family nucleus.
It seems to us that a man who has chosen to forsake his duties and responsibilities is not a necessary constituent for the wellbeing of the child. The Appellant has taken care to clarify that should her son's father evince any interest in his son, she would not object to his participation in the litigation, or in the event of its culmination, for the custody issue to be revisited. Although the Guardian Court needs no such concession, the mother's intent in insisting that the father should not be publically notified seems to us not to be unreasonable.
10. We feel it necessary to add that the purpose of our analysis of the law in other countries was to arrive at a holistic understanding of what a variety of jurisdictions felt would be in the best interest of the child. It was not, as learned Counsel suggested, to understand the tenets of Christian law. India is a secular nation and it is a cardinal necessity that religion be distanced from law. Therefore, the task before us is to interpret the law of the land, not in light of the tenets of the parties' religion but in keeping with legislative intent and prevailing case law.
11. It is imperative that the rights of the mother must also be given due consideration. As Ms. Malhotra, learned Senior Counsel for the Appellant, has eloquently argued, the Appellant's fundamental right of privacy would be violated if she is forced to disclose the name and particulars of the father of her child. Any responsible man would keep track of his offspring and be concerned for the welfare of the child he has brought into the world; this does not appear to be so in the present case, on a perusal of the pleading as they presently portray. Furthermore, Christian unwed mothers in India are disadvantaged when compared to their Hindu counterparts, who are the natural guardians of their illegitimate children by virtue of their maternity alone, without the requirement of any notice to the putative fathers. It would be apposite for us to underscore that our Directive Principles envision the existence of a uniform civil code, but this remains an unaddressed constitutional expectation.
12. We recognize that the father's right to be involved in his child's life may be taken away if Section 11 is read in such a manner that he is not given notice, but given his lack of involvement in the child's life, we find no reason to prioritize his rights over those of the mother or her child. Additionally, given that the Appellant has already issued notice to the public in general by way of a publication in a National Daily and has submitted an affidavit stating that her guardianship rights may be revoked, altered or amended if at any point the father of the child objects to them, the rights, nay duty of the father have been more than adequately protected.
13. The issue at hand is the interpretation of Section 11 of the Act. As the intention of the Act is to protect the welfare of the child, the applicability of Section 11 would have to be read accordingly. In Laxmi Kant Pandey vs. Union of India 1985 (Supp) SCC 701, this Court prohibited notice of guardianship applications from being issued to the biological parents of a child in order to prevent them from tracing the adoptive parents and the child. Although the Guardians and Wards Act was not directly attracted in that case, nevertheless it is important as it reiterates that the welfare of the child takes priority above all else, including the rights of the parents. In the present case we do not find any indication that the welfare of the child would be undermined if the Appellant is not compelled to disclose the identity of the father, or that Court notice is mandatory in the child's interest. On the contrary, we find that this may well protect the child from social stigma and needless controversy.
14. Even in the absence of Laxmi Kant Pandey, we are not like mariners in unchartered troubled seas. The observations of a three Judge Bench of this Court in Githa Hariharan v. Reserve Bank of India (1999) 2 SCC 228 are readily recollected. The RBI had refused to accept an application for a fixed deposit in the name of the child signed solely by the mother.
In the context of Section 6 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act as well as Section 19 of the Guardians and Wards Act, this Court had clarified that "in all situations where the father is not in actual charge of the affairs of the minor either because of his indifference or because of an agreement between him and the mother of the minor (oral or written) and the minor is in the exclusive care and custody of the mother or the father for any other reason is unable to take care of the minor because of his physical and/or mental incapacity, the mother can act as natural guardian of the minor and all her actions would be valid even during the life time of the father who would be deemed to be "absent" for the purposes of Section 6(a) of the HMG Act and Section 19(b) of the GW Act."
This Court has construed the word 'after' in Section 6(a) of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act as meaning "in the absence of - be it temporary or otherwise or total apathy of the father towards the child or even inability of the father by reason of ailment or otherwise." Thus this Court interpreted the legislation before it in a manner conducive to granting the mother, who was the only involved parent, guardianship rights over the child.
15. In a case where one of the parents petitions the Court for appointment as guardian of her child, we think that the provisions of Section 11 would not be directly applicable. It seems to us that Section 11 applies to a situation where the guardianship of a child is sought by a third party, thereby making it essential for the welfare of the child being given in adoption to garner the views of child's natural parents.
The views of an uninvolved father are not essential, in our opinion, to protect the interests of a child born out of wedlock and being raised solely by his/her mother. We may reiterate that even in the face of the express terms of the statute, this Court had in Laxmi Kant Pandey directed that notice should not be sent to the parents, as that was likely to jeopardize the future and interest of the child who was being adopted. The sole factor for consideration before us, therefore, is the welfare of the minor child, regardless of the rights of the parents. We should not be misunderstood as having given our imprimatur to an attempt by one of the spouses to unilaterally seek custody of a child from the marriage behind the back of other spouse. The apprehensions of Mr. Luthra, learned amicus curiae, are accordingly addressed.
16. Section 11 is purely procedural; we see no harm or mischief in relaxing its requirements to attain the intendment of the Act. Given that the term "parent" is not defined in the Act, we interpret it, in the case of illegitimate children whose sole caregiver is one of his/her parents, to principally mean that parent alone. Guardianship or custody orders never attain permanence or finality and can be questioned at any time, by any person genuinely concerned for the minor child, if the child's welfare is in peril. The uninvolved parent is therefore not precluded from approaching the Guardian Court to quash, vary or modify its orders if the best interests of the child so indicate. There is thus no mandatory and inflexible procedural requirement of notice to be served to the putative father in connection with a guardianship or custody petition preferred by the natural mother of the child of whom she is the sole caregiver.
17. Implicit in the notion and width of welfare of the child, as one of its primary concomitants, is the right of the child to know the identity of his or her parents. This right has now found unquestionable recognition in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which India has acceded to on 11th November, 1992. This Convention pointedly makes mention, inter alia, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For facility of reference the salient provisions are reproduced - Article 1 For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.
Article 3
1. In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.
2. States Parties undertake to ensure the child such protection and care as is necessary for his or her well-being, taking into account the rights and duties of his or her parents, legal guardians, or other individuals legally responsible for him or her, and, to this end, shall take all appropriate legislative and administrative measures.
3. States Parties shall ensure that the institutions, services and facilities responsible for the care or protection of children shall conform with the standards established by competent authorities, particularly in the areas of safety, health, in the number and suitability of their staff, as well as competent supervision.
Article 7
1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.
Article 9
1. States Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will, except when competent authorities subject to judicial review determine, in accordance with applicable law and procedures, that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child. Such determination may be necessary in a particular case such as one involving abuse or neglect of the child by the parents, or one where the parents are living separately and a decision must be made as to the child's place of residence.
2. In any proceedings pursuant to paragraph 1 of the present article, all interested parties shall be given an opportunity to participate in the proceedings and make their views known.
3. States Parties shall respect the right of the child who is separated from one or both parents to maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular basis, except if it is contrary to the child's best interests.
Article 12
1. States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.
2. For this purpose, the child shall in particular be provided the opportunity to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting the child, either directly, or through a representative or an appropriate body, in a manner consistent with the procedural rules of national law.
Article 18
1. States Parties shall use their best efforts to ensure recognition of the principle that both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child. Parents or, as the case may be, legal guardians, have the primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of the child. The best interests of the child will be their basic concern.
Article 21
States Parties that recognize and/or permit the system of adoption shall ensure that the best interests of the child shall be the paramount consideration and they shall:
(a) Ensure that the adoption of a child is authorized only by competent authorities who determine, in accordance with applicable law and procedures and on the basis of all pertinent and reliable information, that the adoption is permissible in view of the child's status concerning parents, relatives and legal guardians and that, if required, the persons concerned have given their informed consent to the adoption on the basis of such counselling as may be necessary;
Article 27
2. The parent(s) or others responsible for the child have the primary responsibility to secure, within their abilities and financial capacities, the conditions of living necessary for the child's development.
4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to secure the recovery of maintenance for the child from the parents or other persons having financial responsibility for the child, both within the State Party and from abroad. In particular, where the person having financial responsibility for the child lives in a State different from that of the child, States Parties shall promote the accession to international agreements or the conclusion of such agreements, as well as the making of other appropriate arrangements.
18. In Laxmi Kant Pandey, this Court duly noted the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but in the general context of adoption of children and, in particular, regarding the necessity to involve the natural parents in the consequent guardianship/custody proceedings. The provisions of the Convention which we have extracted indeed reiterate the settled legal position that the welfare of the child is of paramount consideration vis a vis the perceived rights of parents not only so far as the law in India is concerned, but preponderantly in all jurisdictions across the globe.
We are mindful of the fact that we are presently not confronted with a custody conflict and, therefore, there is no reason whatsoever to even contemplate the competence or otherwise of the Appellant as custodian of the interests and welfare of her child. However, we would be loathe to lose perspective of our parens patriae obligations, and in that regard we need to ensure that the child's right to know the identity of his parents is not vitiated, undermined, compromised or jeopardised.
In order to secure and safeguard this right, we have interviewed the Appellant and impressed upon her the need to disclose the name of the father to her son. She has disclosed his name, along with some particulars to us; she states that she has no further information about him. These particulars have been placed in an envelope and duly sealed, and may be read only pursuant to a specific direction of this Court.
19. We are greatly perturbed by the fact that the Appellant has not obtained a Birth Certificate for her son who is nearly five years old. This is bound to create problems for the child in the future. In this regard, the Appellant has not sought any relief either before us or before any of the Courts below. It is a misplaced assumption in the law as it is presently perceived that the issuance of a Birth Certificate would be a logical corollary to the appellant succeeding in her guardianship petition. It may be recalled that owing to curial fiat, it is no longer necessary to state the name of the father in applications seeking admission of children to school, as well as for obtaining a passport for a minor child.
However, in both these cases, it may still remain necessary to furnish a Birth Certificate. The law is dynamic and is expected to diligently keep pace with time and the legal conundrums and enigmas it presents. There is no gainsaying that the identity of the mother is never in doubt. Accordingly, we direct that if a single parent/unwed mother apply for the issuance of a Birth Certificate for a child born from her womb, the Authorities concerned may only require her to furnish an affidavit to this effect, and must thereupon issue the Birth Certificate, unless there is a Court direction to the contrary.
Trite though it is, yet we emphasise that it is the responsibility of the State to ensure that no citizen suffers any inconvenience or disadvantage merely because the parents fail or neglect to register the birth. Nay, it is the duty of the State to take requisite steps for recording every birth of every citizen. To remove any possible doubt, the direction pertaining to issuance of the Birth Certificate is intendedly not restricted to the circumstances or the parties before us.
20. We think it necessary to also underscore the fact that the Guardian Court as well as the High Court which was in seisin of the Appeal ought not to have lost sight of the fact that they had been called upon to discharge their parens patriae jurisdiction. Upon a guardianship petition being laid before the Court, the concerned child ceases to be in the exclusive custody of the parents; thereafter, until the attainment of majority, the child continues in curial curatorship. Having received knowledge of a situation that vitally affected the future and welfare of a child, the Courts below could be seen as having been derelict in their duty in merely dismissing the petition without considering all the problems, complexities and complications concerning the child brought within its portals.
21. The Appeal is therefore allowed. The Guardian Court is directed to recall the dismissal order passed by it and thereafter consider the Appellant's application for guardianship expeditiously without requiring notice to be given to the putative father of the child.
New Delhi
July 06, 2015.


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Visit reviewed: 11/16/2007
Argh! I hate rewriting something that I've already written, trying to make it the same which is impossible. My computer froze and the alledged blogger autodraft failed me. Miserably. So here goes my attempt #2 at Nonzero.
Organic foods and restaurants are part of the latest trend in being healthy and treating our bodies right, and Taipei is no exception. I've heard about a few other organic restaurants and even home delivery services, but the first time I heard of Nonzero was when we went. Nonzero's menu is not huge, but offers a few options for salads, appetizers, pastas and grilled meats in English and Chinese. I imagine it's quite seasonal like most organic based restaurants. We got the set menu which included soup, daily special and dessert for about NT$550.
It's also a bright cool space with a huge rectangular wooden table with family style seating with a few typical tables on teh side. There is also a small take-home shopping area in the back of fresh vegetables and such. Our friends who introduced us to Nonzero said their brunch is also quite good. They also had fresh bread (with raisins. ick) and olive oil before the food came as well as some homegrown raisins on the stem (double ick. Can you tell I don't like raisins).
I loved the hearty vegetable soup which was light and flavorful, as well as the ala carte sweet roasted peppers salad (NT$180).
I also thought my friend's seafood creme linguine (changed to vegetarian) was creamy but not heavy and my own roasted chicken was too dry with slightly underseasoned sauteed mushrooms.
The set menu also came with a grilled pear which was not too sweet.
Maybe I did feel a little bit healthier after lunch. Don't know how the other grilled meats turn out based on my disappointing chicken. I could definitely go again for soup and salad since great fresh salads seem to be hard to find in Taipei, and maybe check out brunch. Sometimes you can only take enough of the watered down cream soups that seem to be so popular as part of set menus in Taipei (you know what I'm talking about?)
3 comments:
- Tosh said...
Hey, this is a first time visit for me but your blog is awsome! Keep up the good work.
- joanh said...
tt: hi! hopefully you'll visit again soon!
tosh: thanks! any places you recommend? - 12/20/2007 11:03 AM
THis is one of my favorite Taipei restaurants. You MUST check it out!
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All particulars relative to the Pre – Bidding Conference, Eligibility Screening, Evaluation of Bids, Post Qualification and Award of Contract shall be governed by the pertinent provisions of R.A. 9184 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).


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This entry refers to a departed business that has closed or left town. All information here is for historical reference only. |
Former Location |
706 2nd Street |
Former Owners |
First owned by local residents Roy and Edith Kanoff, who then sold the business (but not the building) to their longtime managers Gary and Liz Newton. The Newtons sold the business to the Han family in the early 00's. |
Business Lifespan |
(~1970 - November 2008 |
Carousel Stationery and Gifts was a local non-chain store selling office supplies (such as file folders and paper in quantity), greeting cards, souvenirs, and decorative knick-knacks, as well as traditional stationery. If they didn't have the office supplies you wanted, they often ordered them to arrive within the week.
There was a huge selection of Webkinz, Lil' Kinz, Trading Cards, Clothes, Mouse Pads, and Figurines.
It was a family-owned business, and the family lived in Elk Grove. Be sure to check out the Columbus Cafe mural on the western outside wall of the building.
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2008-10-13 00:50:20 As of this afternoon, there is a 50% off sale going down. Great deals to find, if you can find a clerk or staff person to ring up your finds. Carousel will be going out of business in a few weeks. The new owners from Elk Grove never achieved the rapport with the community that the former owners had enjoyed. —SredniVastar
2008-11-30 20:21:42 I'm a little sad that this place is gone. I really liked the fact that they were an old-fashioned, independent stationery store. But the truth is that I hardly ever went in there, in part because of the location and the hours, but also because I didn't find the things I was looking for the times that I did go. Maybe it was a better store in the earlier days when it was owned by the Kanoff's and the Newton's — before my time. —CovertProfessor


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I've decided to stop doing secondary-fermentations on the recommendation of users on this stackexchange.
A Dead Ringer IPA from Northern Brewer suggests 1-2 weeks primary, and 2-4 weeks secondary, with the last oz of Centennial being dry hopped in the secondary 1-2 weeks prior to bottling.
I'm worried about 2 things:
1) is a 6 week primary going to be ok -- will the yeast start to die at this point? (I did a yeast starter and areation)
2) Racking to secondary fermentation leaves the krausen behind. Do I simply drop the hop pellets onto the krausen and let them sink through? I don't want a bunch of holes in my krausen because I think I have a leaky lid on my fermentation chamber. Should I just get a filter and pop only one hole in the krausen, pouring the pellets through the filter, in order to minimize harm?
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Third Friday Downtown Medford Art Walk Friday, June 21, 5:30 – 8:00 pm
Community Gallery
Inspired by the East: Annual Art Movement Tribute
June 7 – July 12, 2019
Tom Glassman, Mural Detail of Tashi Choling, Photograph
Rogue Gallery artists created work with the inspiration of the art of the East. Artists used themes and styles from China, Japan, India, and other countries of the East. The exhibit includes oil, acrylics, watercolor, pen and ink, Chinese brush painting, pastels, fiber art, photography, and mixed media.
Participating artists include Bruce Allen, Lynn Anderson, Susan Austin, Rachel Barrett, Linda Boutacoff, Hortense J. Bullock, John E. Bullock, Dawna Curler, Phyllis Earls, Cynthia Flowers, Tom Glassman, Jay Gordon, John Hawkins, Kim Hearon, Mary Hills, Zelpha Hutton, Jennifer Ivey, Sheryl Leblanc, Charles
Continue reading Exhibits at Rogue Gallery for Third Friday June 21, 2019


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When Griffins first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future hes been imagining for himself has gone far off course. To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffins downward spiral continues. Hes losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets hes been keeping are tearing him apart. If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.
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Come play at the park, and learn to count, add, subtract, sort and more! Park Math introduces early math concepts to children in Preschool and Kindergarten (ages 2-6).
Join Blue Bear and his friends as they play in the park and learn through 7 fun educational activities:
1. SWING: NUMBERS – Count up to 50 as a rabbit swings.
2. SLIDE: ADDITION – Help ducks climb to the top of a slide and learn how to add.
3. SEESAW: GREATER THAN / LESS THAN – Balance a seesaw by adding and subtracting mice.
4. APPLE TREE: SUBTRACTION – Learn how to subtract as apples fall from a tree.
5. SANDBOX: PATTERNS – Complete the pattern in a sandbox with the correct toy.
6. BENCH: SORTING – Order the dogs from small to large. Order numbers in sequence.
7. PICNIC: COUNTING – Feed a hippo the correct number of food items.
Park Math includes 2 levels for Preschool and Kindergarten. Level 1 includes counting up to 20 and addition/subtraction with numbers up to 5. Level 2 includes counting up to 50 and addition/subtraction with numbers up to 10.
Park Math HD (for iPad) includes a third level for First Grade. Level 3 includes counting up to 100 and addition/subtraction with numbers up to 20.
Instrumental music recorded especially for this app with cello and guitar includes popular nursery rhymes: This Old Man, Skip to My Lou, Five Little Ducks, The Muffin Man, and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.
TIP FOR PARENTS: There are two ways to navigate to different activities:
1) Swipe Blue Bear to make him skate forward or backward.
2) Touch the kites and pick the kite corresponding to the activity.


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Johnson Penalized For Being Late
Johnson was within 10 seconds of being disqualified.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dustin Johnson wound up with another bizarre penalty Thursday when his caddie thought his tee time was 40 minutes later than it was, and he had to race up the hill at Riviera just to avoid being disqualified.
Johnson was halfway through his warm-up routine at the Northern Trust Open when a PGA Tour official ran over to the range to tell him he was supposed to be on the No. 1 tee, located up a 100-foot slope next to the historic clubhouse.
"I was like, 'What are you talking about?'" Johnson said. "I've never missed a tee time before."
He was given a two-shot penalty for not being on the tee box at 7:32 a.m. -- his starting time. Players then have five minutes to get to the tee before they are disqualified, and Johnson made it with six seconds to spare.
Johnson made a par 5 on the opening hole and had to put down for a double bogey. He finished with a 2-over 73 and was six shots behind the leaders from the morning groups.
Last summer, Johnson was penalized two shots on the 18th hole of the PGA Championship when he didn't realize he was in a bunker at Whistling Straits with the gallery standing all around him. The penalty kept him out of a playoff won by Martin Kaymer.
Johnson's caddie, Bobby Brown, took the blame for mixing up the tee time.
Brown said the tour sends text messages of tee times, and they came in all at once -- 8:12 a.m. for the Wednesday pro-am, 7:32 a.m. for Thursday's opening round and 12:12 p.m. for the second round. Brown said for some reason he had "12" stuck in his head, and when Johnson asked him for the tee time Wednesday afternoon, he told him 8:12 a.m.
"I don't look at my time," Johnson said. "I leave that up to Bobby."
Defending champion Steve Stricker was close to sparing Johnson the mistake. Stricker was done hitting balls and was about to climb the hill toward the putting green when he looked over and saw Johnson empty a bucket of balls on the range.
"He started to stretch and I did a double-take," Stricker said. "I almost said something to him, but then I figured he had been putting and came down to hit a few more balls."
The starter announced the group at 7:32 a.m. -- D.A. Points also was in the group -- but Johnson was nowhere to be found.
"We looked down from the first tee and could see Dustin still on the range," Stricker said. "We tried to yell down to him, but by then it was too late."
It didn't get much better for Johnson when he eventually got to the tee. He said he tweaked his left hip running up the stairs toward the first tee, and it took a couple of holes before the pain went away.
"I've got to run up those stairs," he said. "I get up there on the tee, my adrenaline is pumping, and my hip just locked up on me for a couple of holes. It was tight."
With a bogey on the second hole, he already was 3 over and still trying to settle down.
"I was pretty (ticked) off on No. 1 and No. 2," Johnson said, pausing briefly before adding, "and 3, and 4 and 5."
Then came the par-4 10th, where he took double bogey. That was the last of his mistakes on the course, however, and Johnson finished with a birdie on the 18th hole.
Johnson already has a history of coping with mistakes. Before his blunder from the bunker on the final hole of the PGA Championship, he had a three-shot lead going into the final round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach last year until taking a triple bogey on second hole and losing his next two tee shots. He shot an 82 that day, the highest score by a 54-hole leader at the U.S. Open in nearly 100 years.
He has said repeatedly that he doesn't dwell on mistakes for long, and said this would be no different.
"Just one of those things," Johnson said. "I'll get over it."
Heading to his car, where Brown was waiting in the front seat, Johnson grinned and said, "It might take Bobby a little longer."


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Modern Farmhouse Cuisine
Tue, April 03, 2012
The Beard House
Member Price: $130
Public Price: $170
Phone: 212.627.1111
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Catalyst Restaurant - Cambridge, MA
A protégé of JBF Award winners Traci Des Jardins and Michael Schlow and the former chef at the acclaimed Aujourd'hui at Boston's Four Seasons, William Kovel is striking out on his own at Catalyst, his stimulating contemporary-American eatery in Cambridge.
Event photos by F. Martin Ramin.
Tickets to events held at the James Beard House cover the cost of food and a unique dining experience. Dinners are prepared by culinary masters from all regions of the United States and around the world. All alcoholic beverages are provided on a complimentary basis and are not included in the ticket price.


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This study deconstructs advertisement images of the British version of the women's fashion magazine Vogue. It shows how they represent women using the theory of decoding advertisements by media critic Judith Williamson. ...


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If This Dude Gets One Million Facebook Likes, His High School Crush Will Sleep with Him
True story.
Taking his cue from the kids who convinced their parents to give them a puppy after getting 1 million likes on Facebook, Petter Kverneng of Norway got his high school crush Catherine to agree to sleep with him if he secured as many Facebook likes himself.
"It was meant as a joke for our group of friends," Kverneng, 20, told the local press.
Joke or not, the "status upgrade" soon hit 4chan's /b/ imageboard, where users naturally felt compelled to help Kverneng out.
Within a matter of hours, the solicitation gained over 900,000 likes, and is presently steamrolling ahead to the 1 million mark.
Kverneng, who has been friendzoned by Catherine for years, told Norway's Nettavisen that the two plan to "keep what we promised."
His only concern now, he said, is that her father might find out.
True story.


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Academic round-up
on Jan 24, 2012 at 12:27 pm
The Court recently granted cert. in Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., a case which may lead the Court to revisit whether an agency's interpretation of its own regulations merit deference. [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, whose attorneys contribute to this blog, represents the petitioners in this case, but the author of this post is not involved in the case.]
At issue in Christopher is whether pharmaceutical sales representatives fall within the Fair Labor Standards Act's exemption from overtime pay. In trying to answer that question, the lower courts have split on whether to give deference to the Department of Labor's view that pharmaceutical sales reprentatives do not qualify for the FLSA exemption, and thus must be paid overtime. According to respondent SmithKline Beecham, the Department's position, taken in amicus briefs filed in these cases, is an about-face by the agency and merits no deference — a conclusion with which the Ninth Circuit agreed. But the Second Circuit relied on the agency's amicus brief to guide its decision, citing the Supreme Court's decision in Auer v. Robbins requiring courts to defer to agency interpretations of their own rules.
The case raises at least two interesting questions regarding the interplay between courts and agencies. First, the court may use this case to address whether an agency's change in position merits deference. In a recent article, Professors Randy J. Kozel and Jeffrey A. Pojanowski point out that the Justices appear conflicted over whether agencies should be given deference for novel interpretations of the law. Kozel and Pojanowski suggest that courts should defer to some types of changes, but not others. For example, they contend that deference is due to changes in agency interpretations based on new evidence, the agency's technical expertise, or new legal precedent, but they argue that courts should decline to defer when the change in position is grounded upon the agency's new perspective on static information, such as congressional intent or the import of existing precedent.
Also lurking in this case is the threshold question of whether agencies should ever get deference for interpretation of their own regulations, whether consistent or not. The Supreme Court has granted such deference ever since its 1945 decision in Bowles v. Seminole Rock, and it reaffirmed that position more recently in Auer v. Robbins. But there are some interesting arguments against doing so. In a 1996 article in the Columbia Law Review, Professor John Manning made a strong separation of powers argument against such deference. Manning asserted that a single entity should not be given the dual power to both make and interpret law because doing so might encourage agencies to issue vague rules that they can then interpret as they wish in subsequent cases, frustrating notice and predictability and undermining the rule of law.
In his concurrence last term in Talk America v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co., Justice Scalia discussed Manning's article and wrote that he would be "receptive" to reconsidering the rule of deference in Auer. This may be just the case he was looking for.


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Scientists have found evidence of mega-tsunamis hitting the Hawaiian islands that were more than 1000 feet high. The tsunamis are caused by landslides from collapsing volcanos but don't occur very often (every 100,000 years).
There are at least 15 giant landslides that have slid off the Hawaiian Islands in the past 4 million years, with the most recent happening only 100,000 years ago, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. One block of rock that slid off Oahu is the size of Manhattan.